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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.

Nadine Gordimer

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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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